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Bob Uecker Sportscaster, humorist and television personality.
Alfred Uhry Pulitzer prize winning playwright of “Driving Miss Daisy.” His play "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" won a Tony Award for the best play in 1997.
Loung Ung Author, First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remember, Loung Ung will tell her story of how her family was forced out of the Cambodian city in a mass evacuation to the countryside. Three years later the Khmer Rouge had killed Loung's parents and two of her siblings and she was forced to train as a child soldier. In 1980, she and her older brother escaped by boat to Thailand, where they spent five months in a refugee camp and later relocated to the United States. Loung returned to Cambodia fifteen years after her escape for a memorial service for the victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide and was shocked and saddened to learn that twenty of her relatives had been killed. This realization compelled her to devote herself to justice and reconciliation in her homeland.
Gabrielle Union Gabrielle Union is an actress and former model. Among her notable roles is as the cheerleader opposite Kirsten Dunst's in the film Bring it On. Union also starred opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the blockbuster film Bad Boys II and played a medical doctor in the CBS drama series City of Angels.
Maisa and Marina...... Unlikely Partners in Peace Unlikely Partners in Peace Maisa and Marina are two young women, a Jewish Israeli and a Palestinian Israeli, who met through a Slifka Coexistence Fellowship at Brandeis University. They have not only become close friends but they have also done wide-ranging work in promoting coexistence in their communities through facilitating Arab-Jewish dialogue, working with women peace activists, and speaking to a wide range of audiences. Throughout their presentation Maisa and Marina share their experiences of growing up in Israel while stressing the similarities and differences of the political and social realities faced by Israelis and Palestinians in the region. Maisa and Marina emphasize both the importance of coexistence work and the significance of their personal process of facing fears and breaking stereotypes about the other side. The goal of the presentation is not to promote a political agenda but rather to share and express personal perspectives and to encourage the audience to engage in mutual listening and understanding.
Al Unser World champion race car driver and four time winner of the Indy 500.
Bobby Unser Race car driver, three time winner of the Indy 500 and an ABC Sports analyst.
Sol Urbach Schindler’s List Holocaust survivor.
Denise Uyehara Denise Uyehara is an interdisciplinary performance artist/writer/playwright whose work has been presented across the United States (the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Highways Performance Space), and internationally (the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, Dokkyo Performance Studies Conference and the Morishita Studio in Tokyo, the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, Women in View Festival in Vancouver). She was a founding member of the Sacred Naked Nature Girls. Her most recent work, "Big Head", links the U.S. government's incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II with treatment of those perceived as "the enemy" now, including Arab Americans, Muslims, and South Asian Americans. The recipient of numerous awards, Uyehara recently received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council, a California Civil Liberties Public Education Program grant, and was a Poets & Writers 'Writer on Site' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Beyond Baroque Literary Center. She is a member of the California Arts Council Touring Roster. (see listing below) Uyehara teaches workshops in the community, and has taught performance for the Dept. of World Arts & Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and for the Depts. of Asian American Studies and Studio Arts at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Education: BA in Comparative Literature (UCI) and an MFA from the Dept. of World Arts & Cultures (UCLA). Publications: Maps of City & Body: Shedding Light on the Performance and Process of Denise Uyehara (Kaya Press, 2004). Her work also appears in O Solo Homo, Asian American Drama, Getting Your Solo Act Together, and The Asian Pacific American Journal, and as part of Meiling Cheng’s In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art.